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Miami : Tiger Woods sank six birdie putts, including a spectacular 71-footer at the par-3 seventh hole, and leaped into second place with an opening four-under-par 68 Thursday at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
The 14-time major champion, among the early starters on a Bay Hill layout where he has won seven times...

London : Five-time major winner Phil Mickelson defeated Justin Thomas in a play-off to win the WGC-Mexico Championship - his first victory since the 2013 Open.
Thomas chipped in for eagle at the last for a seven-under 64 but watched fellow American Mickelson birdie the 15th and 16th to post 66 for a 16-under...

Dubai : World number 60 Li Haotong held off four-time major winner Rory McIlroy to win the Dubai Desert Classic.
The Northern Irishman turned a shot deficit at the start of play into a two-shot lead at the 10th, but his Chinese rival hit birdies on 13 and 15.
An errant McIlroy drive led to a bogey on the...

Jakarta : England’s Justin Rose carded a 10-under-par 62 in the final round of the Indonesian Masters on Sunday to record a dominant eight-stroke victory at the Asian Toura event.
Play was delayed on Friday and Saturday due to multiple weather interruptions, forcing world number six Rose to complete his...

London : Tiger Woods announced the date for his competitive comeback this week, with a number of European Tour players excited by the 14-time major champion’s return.
Woods confirmed that he will play as tournament host at the Hero World Challenge on the PGA Tour on November 30, his first professional...

London : Tiger Woods has been given the green light by his doctor to step up his rehabilitation from back surgery with no restrictions, according to his agent.
The 14-time major champion has been out of action since withdrawing from the Dubai Desert Classic at the start of February and in April underwent a...

New York : Phil Mickelson will maintain his record of being the only player in history to take part in all 12 Presidents Cups after being chosen as a captain's pick by US skipper Steve Stricker on Wednesday.
Mickelson, the 47-year-old five-time major winner, was selected alongside Charley Hoffman as...

Erin : Brooks Koepka produced a back-nine birdie blitz to win the US Open here Sunday, becoming the seventh consecutive first-time winner of a major with a record-equalling four-shot victory at Erin Hills.
The 27-year-old from Florida fired a five-under-par final round 67 to finish on 16 under for the tournament...

Erin : Dustin Johnson will aim to exploit his big-hitting prowess on the longest course in major championship history when he tees off at the US Open Thursday, bidding to become the first back-to-back champion in 28 years.
The world number one won his first major in last year's US Open at Oakmont, after several...

Los Angeles : World number one Dustin Johnson is preparing for a battle of the big-hitters as he defends his US Open title next week on what is set to be the longest course in major championship history.
Johnson, who clinched his first major victory at Oakmont last year, has been installed as the favourite for the...

Buenos Aires : Argentine golfing great Roberto de Vicenzo died in Buenos Aires on Thursday at the age of 94, his son Eduardo said.
De Vicenzo started out as a caddie in 1932 but rose through the golfing ranks to win the 1967 British Open, beating the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player.
He won 230...

Dallas : American Billy Horschel parred the first playoff hole to beat world number four Jason Day on Sunday to win the PGA Byron Nelson tournament, registering his first victory since 2014.
Horschel came into the tournament having missed four consecutive cuts but turned his fortunes around with some...

Bangkok : Twenty-one-year-old Rattanon Wannasrichan hit a flawless 65 on Saturday to take a slim overnight lead into the final day at Thailand Open as he bids for a breakthrough Asian Tour title.
The up-and-coming Thai star has delighted home fans sharing the clubhouse lead at the end...

Bangkok : The Thailand Open has rejoined the Asian Tour after an eight-year hiatus, organisers announced Wednesday, confirming that Australia's Scott Hend and local favourite Thongchai Jaidee will headline the event later this month.
The deal will be seen as a new blow to the struggling rival OneAsia...

Bangkok : World number two Ariya Jutanugarn cruised to a shared lead in the first round of the Honda LPGA on Thursday, eying a redemptive victory on her home turf.
The smooth bogey-free 66 came fresh off the 21-year-old's spectacular 2016 season, which saw her win five LPGA tournaments and a Player of...

Tokyo : The chairman of the Japanese golf club set to host the sport at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics said they are bewildered by requests lift its ban on women becoming full members.
Kasumigaseki Country Club in Saitama, north of Tokyo, postponed a decision to review its membership policy following a board meeting on...

Singapore : Veteran Thai golfer Prayad Marksaeng won the Singapore Open by a single stroke on Sunday after shooting a final round of four-under-par 67 to finish at nine-under 275.
The 51-year-old Prayad finished a shot clear of four players who tied for second at eight-under, Phachara Khongwatmai of Thailand, Juvic...

Hong Kong : Masters champion Danny Willett rediscovered his magic touch as he shot four-under-par 66 to lie hot on the trail of Rafa Cabrera Bello at the Hong Kong Open on Friday.
As injury-hampered defending champion Justin Rose and Ian Poulter -- left fuming after a late quadruple bogey -- flirted...

Hong Kong : Hong Kong Open golfers were in mourning Thursday as they wore black ribbons in tribute to a caddie who collapsed this week during a Dubai tournament.
Players were also remembering Spanish great Seve Ballesteros' formercaddie who passed away last...

Dubai : The first round of the Dubai Ladies Masters, the season-ending championship of the Ladies European Tour, was suspended Wednesday after the death of a caddie.
Austrian Maximillian Zechmann, a former caddie on the European Tour, collapsed on the 13th fairway and received on-site treatment from the medical team...

Dubai : China’s world number four Shanshan Feng will look to extend her domination in the Omega DubaiLadies Masters, the season-ending championship of the Ladies European Tour, when she seeks a fourth title in last five years.
Feng is the highest ranked player in the field, which...

Manila : S.S.P Chawrasia won his first Asian Tour title outside of India on Sunday in a thrilling finale to the Manila Masters golf tournament, hitting a birdie to win a three-way playoff.
The 38-year-old hit a six under in the final round to...

Sun City : South Korean Wang Jeunghun carded a birdie-laced third-round 64 Saturday to take a three-shot lead in the Nedbank Golf Challenge at a windy Gary Player Country Club in Sun City.
The 21-year-old trailed leader Alex Noren of Sweden by five strokes Friday at the halfway...

Belek : Masters Champion Danny Willett has dropped outside the top-10 on the World Rankings and admits an end-of-season downturn in his game could not have come at a worst time.
The 29-year old Willett has enjoyed just two top-10s since being fitted last...

Shanghai : British Open champion Henrik Stenson said Tuesday he was fit, refreshed and would turn a good year into a great one if he could cap it by winning the Race toDubai.
Sweden's Stenson has been bothered by what he terms "a small re-tear"...

Beijing : Australia's Minjee Lee beat back stiff competition from her rivals to land her third LPGA victory at the Blue Bay tournament on China's Hainan Island Sunday.
Lee carded a two-under par 70 to win by one stroke at 13-under par, one ahead of Jessica Korda and two ahead of Thailand's Ariya Jutanugarn on the...

Taipei : South Korea's Jang Ha-Na carded a one-under 71 Sunday for a 17-under par total of 271 to secure a one-shot victory at the LPGA Taiwan Championship.
Jang battled strong wind and rain to end the final round with three birdies and two bogeys at the tournament at...

Chaska : Tiger Woods, the 14-time major winner sidelined 14 months by a back injury, said Sunday he would enjoy guiding a future US Ryder Cup team after a triumphant assistant turn.
Woods played his supporting role behind US captain Davis Love as the Americans downed Europe 17-11 at Hazeltine, a journey that began...

Seoul : India's Gaganjeet Bhullar stormed back from a five-stroke deficit to win the Korea Open on Sunday, ending an Asian Tour drought after sustaining a serious wrist injury two years ago.
The 28-year-old fired an impressive 67 for a four-day total of 269 at the Bears Best Cheongna Golf Club, winning the 216...

Milan : Sweden's Rikard Karlberg fended off fatigue to begin his defence of the rain-affected Italian Openby carving out a one-shot lead over local hope Francesco Molinari on Thursday in Milan.
Almost five hours of play were lost on the opening day of the EPGA event after heavy rain and lightning...

Dhaka : Golfer Siddikur Rahman has become the first ever Bangladeshi to directly qualify for the Olympics Games after cementing his status as one of the top 60 players for next month's tournament in Rio de Janeiro.
The 31-year-old's place was confirmed when he finished in 56th place in the rankings list...

Dublin: Rory McIlroy will take a three-shot lead into the final round as he seeks to not only end a six-month winless drought but also capture a first Irish Open title.
The current World No. 3 returned to the course at 7.30am local time Sunday to complete the last three holes in his third round after two lengthy...

Japan's Haru Nomura fired a closing seven-under par 65 to deny defending champion and world number one Lydia Ko and win the LPGA-sanctioned Australian Open at The Grange in Adelaide on Sunday.
Nomura, 23, holed eight birdies in the final round having started the day in a three-way share of the lead at...

South Korea's SooBin Kim fired a course record nine-under par 63 to lead the LPGA-sanctioned Australian Women's Open at The Grange in Adelaide on Thursday.
The Canada-based Kim carved three shots off the previous best round by a woman on the West Course to lead the tournament by three shots.
While Kim was blazing...

Journeyman Vaughn Taylor surged to victory in the PGA Tour's Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday, firing a seven-under 65 for a one-shot victory over five-time major winner Phil Mickelson.
For Taylor, it was the end of a victory drought stretching to 2005, while Mickelson remained in search of his first US PGA Tour title...

Sun Kyu Kwak (42 points) was the overall winner as Awali Golf Club (AGC) saw the biggest field of the 2015/16 season with more than 90 including a number of guests from Al Ghazal Club, Abu Dhabi competing for the Schlumberger Trophy and an inter-club machplay for the annual Hindmarsh Trophy the following day.
Two...

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama and England's Danny Willett both entered the world top 15 with tournament wins on Sunday.
Matsuyama moved up six places to 12th by defeating Rickie Fowler in a playoff to take the Phoenix Open, while Willett jumped seven places to 13th by sinking a 15-footer at the last to win the Dubai...

South African Branden Grace retained his Qatar Masters title in Doha on Saturday winning by two shots and making tournament history in the process.
The world number 11 shot a last round 69 in the European Tour tournament to go with previous rounds of 70, 67 and 68 to finish on 14 under.
In doing so he became the...

The Engineering Department team of Peter Hughes, Mark Farrell, Les Young, and Yoy Young (125 points) won the 60th edition of the Bapco Inter-Departmental played at Awali Golf Club (AGC).
This event was first played in the 1956/1957 season and is an 18 hole Stableford team event and was originally for Bapco employees...

In 11-year-old Shubham Jaglan's poor Indian village surrounded by sugar cane fields, few had ever heard of golf until recently let alone know someone playing the sport internationally.
But Jaglan has stunned his family and village since picking up a club at the age of just five, winning back-to-back junior titles in...

The 18th Annual American Mission Hospital (AMH) Charity Golf Tournament is all set to tee-off today under the patronage of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at His Majesty’s Private Golf Course in Safriya.
This three-day high- profile charity tournament is organised by the...

Essa Al Qutami and Ahmed Mohammed (45 points) triumphed in the 21st edition of the NHSC Greensomes competition hosted at Awali Golf in warm and humid conditions on the desert course.
This competition format had both players in ‘drawn pairs’ teams teeing off from each hole and...

Auburn (United States)
Scott Piercy showed why he is the highest-ranked player in the field Sunday, firing a six-under 65 to capture the Barbasol Championship for his third career win on the USPGA Tour.
The 36-year-old American finished the week at 19-under 265 to breeze to a three-stroke victory over...

Munich
Pablo Larrazabal clinched the BMW International Open in Munich by one stroke from Henrik Stenson after a sparkling final-round 66. Larrazabal carded six birdies, five of them on the front nine, to edge away from Swede Stenson as his three on the par-four 16th proved decisive in a tense finish.
Stenson had...

Golf superstar Phil Mickelson is facing a PR nightmare after allegedly sending approximately $2.75 million to a jail-bound former handicapper who laundered money in an illegal sports gambling operation.
According to ESPN’s Outside the Lines, the whopping sum from Mickelson — who...

Tacoma--
Tiger Woods endured the worst US Open round of his career Thursday with a shocking 10-over 80 at Chambers Bay.
It marked Woods' third round in the 80s this season and he equalled the worst major championship round of his career, bringing back memories of his 10-over 81 at the storm-hit 2002 British Open in...

Vienna
Chris Wood played one of the best rounds of his injury-hit career to power to the second European Tour title of his career at the Lyoness Open in Austria.
The Bristol pro, who was sidelined for five months after breaking a bone in his wrist last October, took advantage of a final-day collapse from...

Memphis
Fabian Gomez fired a four-under par 66 on Sunday to win his first US PGA Tour title, beating England's Greg Owen by four strokes at the St. Jude Classic.
Gomez, who shared the overnight lead with Owen, finished with a 72-hole total of 13-under 267, while Owen -- who led by two through seven holes -- finished...

US PGA Tour title
Dublin--
Sweden's David Lingmerth downed Justin Rose with a par at the third playoff hole on Sunday to win his first at the Memorial.
Hours after 14-time major champion Tiger Woods wrapped up the worst-scoring tournament of his career with a lonely final round, Lingmerth and Rose took the...

Kitchener
Norways' Suzann Pettersen fired a bogey-free seven-under 65 to seize a share of the lead with Mariajo Uribe atop a crowded leaderboard after the second round of the LPGA Tour's Manulife Classic.
Pettersen missed just three fairways and hit every green to sit tied with Uribe, who shot a...

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